Base-ball score-card.



Patented May 18, 1909.

- P. MEAI\EY.

BASE BALL SGOBE CARD. APPLIOATION IILED FEB. e, 1909.

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Specficacicn o? Letters Parbanu.

= inventen the object of ti mit score de an improved amangement wing tu pm mental ied represcntng a base hall fiei i with the positions of the players numhered, und the players in the several cohmms num hered in aceordanee With the positions they play, which en a hies the purchnser ot the t rd to remhty 1deut1fy the @layers by their positions in the field, md recognize them when they come to hat:

With these md other fuiects in view, the imention con ts in a certain u'mmgeinent of c0lumns 1nd mpti0ns, iu combination with Li representation of the baseball field ns wi1 hu more fully herenafter described und pointed out in the claims.

The uccompmnying drawing is 21 v.xting my improved score card. E8 s" re card s divided by '\VOV:3L"LC2L1 me d 1'10m the ends of the card view F PHLADELPHIA, PEN-NSYLVANEA.

' 3?atenced 1a, mom

1999. Serial "57o. me,e%.

1)pil in the c0h1mns 3., numems are pi.aced in accordance with the positions they 0c cupy, and in acc0rdauce W1L-h the numems on the field above described. The field 3350 contains at the top the W ump'e, zm the name of the um;.nre oticiating in the 1. The space below the line 32 is ii-- de:i hy a h0rizonline 8, and is suhdi vded by a series of vertical lines "3", as me y of said vertical lines being provided e sir-ed, hu}; prefer:thly as many wil ermit tweve spaces, which is :h0ut all that 0.:iii -0 the ieit of. these horzontai semes of s=p:1ce:a

visitor to the game ctm rea player, by reason of the nume:cais .i thcate the p0s1t1nns'occup1ed, and th1s 0:e

- comes the p-reat objecti0n to the score caras now in gen use.

Sghg Lu :ges might he made i i the er: l form ind armugement of comn capti0ns and ornamental features 5, and the positions ihizwi oecupied by} the players whose a b aseball field, and tiens occupied by the beside the i na1nes in of bothteems vertical columns at both ends of the card, v

said columns di\' 'ided by horizontal lines forming spaces to contain the names of the players, said cohunns given captions or titles in accordance with the names of the teams whose players appear in the said columns, said titles or captions being in the field beside said colinnns, said field between said coiumns containing a representation of a baseball field, and numerals at the positions occupied by the players, and numerals besidethe names in the spaces of the said Columns. in accordance with the positions occupied by the players whose names appear in said spaces.

3. A score card divided by vertical lines, spaced from the ends ofthe card forming vertical 'columns at both ends of the card,

saidcolu1nns divided by. horizontal lines forming spaces to contain the names of the players, said columns given captions or titles in accordanee With the names of the tea1ns whose players 'appear in the said columns, said titles or captions being in the field beside said columns, said field between said columns containing a representation bf numerals at the posi players, and numerals the spaces of.the said eolumns aecordance with the positions names appear and the names of the players in the said columns, printed 11"1 said spaces,

lower portion of the card on the -lield bcside the numbered positions they occupy.

4. A score card divided by vertical lines, spaced from the ends of the card forming vertical columns at both ends of the card, said cohnnns divided by horizontal lines forming spaces to contain the names of the players, said columns given captions or titles in accordance with the names of the tea1ns whose players appear in the said colun1us, said titles or captions being in the field beside said colun1ns, said field between said columns containing a representation of a baseball field, and numerals at the posi tiens ocupied by the players, and numerals heside the names in the spaces of the said columns in accordance with the positions occupied by the players whose names appear in said spaces, and the names of the players of both teams in the said colu1nns, printed on the field beside the numbered positions they occupy, horizontal lines dividing the into two hori zontal series of spaces, and said series of spaces under the captions or titles of the contesting teams.

In tstimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PATRICK MEANEY.

VVitnesses:

R. H. KRENKEL, J. A. L. M ULHALL. 

